Sitecore Fetch Squad

From a recent article on CMS Watch (an excellent source of information when evaluting a WCM platform):

“I recently came across two local Danish companies trying to overhaul their web publishing systems. Both had settled on MOSS 2007 for their Web CMS and wanted a proposal for an implementation. Surprisingly, here’s what they got back:

• In the first project they approached Microsoft directly, which then passed the opportunity onto 2 preferred partners. After a while the local Microsoft office came back and informed the customer that the partners had both declined making a proposal for MOSS 2007 as they did not consider the project a good fit for SharePoint 2007. Instead Microsoft suggested that Microsoft partner Sitecore had more suitable WCM capabilities in this case.
• What happened in the other project was even more surprising. Here a well-known and considerably large Microsoft system integrator firmly argued for going with the old SharePoint Portal Server 2003 instead of MOSS 2007. They felt much more experienced with the old version, where they could also rely on a range of custom modules to help the project. “

Surprising stuff! Read the full article here: http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1163-When-Microsoft-and-partners-don’t-push-MOSS-2007-for-web-content-management